Strap-protector.



No. 869,015. PATENTED OCT. 22, 1907.

J. F. PAYNE & R. L. COLEMAN.

STRAP PROTECTOR APPLICATION FILED FEB-11, 1907.

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JAMES F. PAYNE AND ROBERT L. COLEMAN, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

STRAP-PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed February 11,1907. Serial No. 356,846.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES F. PAYNE and ROBERT L. COLEMAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in strap protectors.

The object of oru invention is to provide means for preventing wear due to swinging movement of a strap in a link, such as a link attached to hames or other parts of harness.

Our protector comprises a body, preferably of sheet metal adapted to embrace the link through which the strap passes, said body supporting the strap and being interposed between the strap and link, and provided with means by which the strap is prevented from slipping on the body.

The novel features of our invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating our invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation view of harness hames having aflixed thereto a strap protector of our invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged side elevation view of a part of the hames having affixed thereto om improved protector. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of what is shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of our improved protector.

Similar characters of reference denote similar parts.

1 denotes the link secured to the lower end of one of the hames, and 2 the strap secured to the other one of the hames and adapted to pass through said link. Ordinarily the strap 2 bears upon the link 1 and by its swinging movement the strap becomes worn and weakened where it bears on the link. To prevent the hi0- tion of the strap on the link and thereby preventing the wear on the strap, we have provided a protector which will support the strap and receive the friction of the link. This protector comprises in its preferable form a sheet metal body 3 bent so as to have two sides substantially parallel with each other for a part, one side being longer, the longer side having an offset or outwardly bent portion 4. The offset portion 4 is provided with a hole 5 adapted to receive therethrough the strap 2. The body is provided with means for engaging and holding the strap from slipping when the strap is made to embrace the outer wall of the parallel portions of the body. For this purpose a pointed tongue 6 is provided in the body, said tongue extending outwardly from that part of the body embraced by the strap. The body when formed is substantially of the shape of the letter J, and has two arms substantially parallel with each other for a part of their length.

In operating our invention the hooked portion of the body is caused to embrace the link 1 as shown in the drawings. The strap 2 is then inserted through the link 1 and is bent so as to embrace the body, the strap being inserted through the hole 5. The strap is then pulled tight against the body so as to have the pointed tongue 6 enter the strap, thus preventing the strap slipping on the body in one direction but permitting it to slip in the opposite direction. The free end of the strap may then be secured in the ordinary manner, as with a buckle. back and forth the body 3 will swing on the link 1 and the strap will be protected from wear.

Ourinvention may be modified within the scope of the appended claims without departing from its spirit.

Having thus described our invention what we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A strap protector comprising a sheet metal body formed with two sides disposed for a part parallel with each other, one side being the longer, and the longer side having an offset provided with a hole to receive the strap, said body being adapted to have the strap embrace the outer sides of the parallel portions, and the body having a pointed tongue inclining outwardly and from said hole and adapted to enter the strap to prevent the strap slipping on the body in one direction but permitting slipping of the strap in the opposite direction, said body being adapted to 'embrace and swing on a link through which the strap ex tends, and serving to prevent the strap from hearing on the link.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES F. PAYNE. ROBERT L. COLEMAN.

Witnesses G. 0. LA MOUNTAIN, E. B. Hoosn.

When now the strap 2 is swung, 

